References

ARN Structure

Generic structure

arn:partition:service:region:account-id:resource-id
arn:partition:service:region:account-id:resource-type/resource-id
arn:partition:service:region:account-id:resource-type:resource-id

• Partition: can be one of the following: aws, aws-cn (Chinese branch), aws-us-gov (US Gov restricted access)

• Service

• Region

• Account-id: account id of the resource owner

• Resource-id: id code of the specified resource or service

• Resource-type: some resource categories allow more granularity when searching for a particular resource. For instance EC2 services can be subdivided into instances, images, security groups and so on

Services

The following repository contains a list of services grouped by resource. The list is generated from the AWS documentation

aws-service-list/generated_docs/aws_services.md at main · fborsani/aws-service-listGitHub

Regions

Code	Name
us-east-2	US East (Ohio)
us-east-1	US East (Virginia)
us-west-1	US West (N. California)
us-west-2	US West (Oregon)
ap-south-1	Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
ap-northeast-3	Asia Pacific (Osaka)
ap-northeast-2	Asia Pacific (Seoul)
ap-southeast-1	Asia Pacific (Singapore)
ap-southeast-2	Asia Pacific (Sydney)
ap-northeast-1	Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
ca-central-1	Canada (Central)
eu-central-1	Europe (Frankfurt)
eu-west-1	Europe (Ireland)
eu-west-2	Europe (London)
eu-west-3	Europe (Paris)
eu-north-1	Europe (Stockholm)
sa-east-1	South America (São Paulo)

Opt-in regions

Code	Name
af-south-1	Africa (Cape Town)
ap-east-1	Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)
ap-south-2	Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)
ap-southeast-3	Asia Pacific (Jakarta)
ap-southeast-4	Asia Pacific (Melbourne)
ca-west-1	Canada West (Calgary)
eu-south-1	Europe (Milan)
eu-south-2	Europe (Spain)
eu-central-2	Europe (Zurich)
il-central-1	Israel (Tel Aviv)
me-south-1	Middle East (Bahrain)
me-central-1	Middle East (UAE)

ID Prefixes

Prefix	Resource type
ABIA	AWS STS service bearer token
ACCA	Context-specific credential
AGPA	User group
AIDA	IAM user
AIPA	Amazon EC2 instance profile
AKIA	Access key
ANPA	Managed policy
ANVA	Version in a managed policy
APKA	Public key
AROA	Role
ASCA	Certificate
ASIA	Temporary (AWS STS) access key IDs use this prefix, but are unique only in combination with the secret access key and the session token.